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Tirthankar Roy (born 14 February 1960) is an Indian
economic historian Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and in ...
and Professor of
Economic History Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and i ...
at the
London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 mill ...
. He is one of the most influential researchers of the
Economic History Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and i ...
of
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and India, having published over 25 books and numerous articles. His work spans the fields of
Economic History Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and i ...
,
Business History Business history is a historiographical field which examines the history of firms, business methods, government regulation and the effects of business on society. It also includes biographies of individual firms, executives, and entrepreneu ...
and
Social History Social history, often called the new social history, is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. In its "golden age" it was a major growth field in the 1960s and 1970s among scholars, and still is well represented in his ...
, particularly studying the effects of British colonialism in India on its
economic development In the economics study of the public sector, economic and social development is the process by which the economic well-being and quality of life of a nation, region, local community, or an individual are improved according to targeted goals a ...
.


Biography

Roy received an M.A. in Economics from
Visva-Bharati University Visva-Bharati () is a public central university and an Institution of National Importance located in Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India. It was founded by Rabindranath Tagore who called it ''Visva-Bharati'', which means the communion of the ...
in
West Bengal, India West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...
and subsequently his Ph.D. from the Centre for Development Studies,
Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram (; ), also known by its former name Trivandrum (), is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala. It is the most populous city in Kerala with a population of 957,730 as of 2011. The encompassing urban agglomeration populati ...
,
Kerala Kerala ( ; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of India. It was formed on 1 November 1956, following the passage of the States Reorganisation Act, by combining Malayalam-speaking regions of the erstwhile regions of Cochin, Malabar, South C ...
,
India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the ...
, in 1989. Before joining the LSE, he served as a professor at the
Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), commonly known as Gokhale Institute, is one of the oldest research and training institutes in economics in India. History The institute was founded on 6 June 1930 by R. R. Kale as a centre f ...
in
Pune, India Pune (; ; also known as Poona, ( the official name from 1818 until 1978) is one of the most important industrial and educational hubs of India, with an estimated population of 7.4 million As of 2021, Pune Metropolitan Region is the largest i ...
. He is currently a Professor of Economic History at the
London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 mill ...
. He serves on the editorial boards of internationally recognised journals including the ''Indian Economic and Social History Review'' and the
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Economic History Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and i ...
series.


Selected publications

* ''Economic Change in Global History'' (
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, TBD) * ''A Business History of India: Enterprise and the Emergence of Capitalism from 1700'' (
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: Cambridge University Press, 2018) * ''The Economy of South Asia from 1950 to the Present'' (
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, 2017) * (With Anand V. Swamy) ''Law and the Economy in Colonial India'' (
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, 2016) * ''An Economic History of Early Modern India'' (
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, 2013) * ''East India Company: The World’s Most Powerful Corporation'' (
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: Allen Lane, 2012) * ''The Economic History of India 1857-1947'' (
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, 2011) * (With Giorgio Riell)''How India Clothed the World: The World of South Asian Textiles 1500-1850'' (
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, 2010) * (With Douglas Haynes, Abigail McGowan, Haruka Yanagisawa) ''Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia'' (
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, 2010) * ''Company of Kinsmen: Community and Enterprise in South Asian History 1700-1950'' (
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, 2010) * ''Rethinking Economic Change in India: Labour and Livelihood'' ( Abingdon, United Kingdom and New York, United States:
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, 2005) * ''Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India'' (
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, 1999) * ''Artisans and Industrialization: Indian Weaving in the Twentieth Century, (
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, 1993) * (With Ashok Desai) ''Economic Reforms: The Next Step'' (
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, 1998) * ''Cloth and Commerce: Textiles in Indian History'' (
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, 1996) * ''The Story of Indian Business The East India Company''


References

1960 births British economists Economic historians Living people Academics of the London School of Economics Indian economists Visva-Bharati University alumni People from Birbhum district {{UK-historian-stub